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Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection

Anti-Slavery collection (approximately 40,000 pieces). In the late 1890's, the family of William Lloyd Garrison, along with others closely involved in the anti-slavery movement, presented the library with a major gathering of correspondence, documents, and other original material relating to the abolitionist cause from 1832 until after the Civil War. The major holdings consist of the papers of William Lloyd Garrison, Maria Weston Chapman and Deborah Weston, Lydia Maria Child, Amos Augustus Phelp...



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Provenance: United Presbyterian College, bookplate
Topics: British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society, East India Company, Slavery, Slave trade
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895; Mallory, S. V. R., former owner; Mallory, L. C., former owner
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Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) ex libris (bookplate): S.V.R. Mallory; (inscription) L.C. Mallory
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Topics: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Slavery, African American...
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Carleton, Geo. W. (George Washington)
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432 p., [8] leaves of plates : 19 cm
Topic: Slavery
Title provided by cataloger
Topics: New-England Anti-Slavery Society, Antislavery movements
x, 90, [2] p. : 19 cm
Topics: Brown, Henry Box, b. 1816, Slavery, Fugitive slaves
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880; Child, David Lee, 1794-1874; Gay, S. Howard. inscriber; Southard, Nathaniel; American Almanac Collection (Library of Congress) DLC; American Anti-Slavery Society
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Title from cover
Topics: Slavery, Almanacs, American
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Hatch, Theodore F. Hatch, Jr., donor; Hatch, Jane Grimes, collector
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Abolitionist
Topic: Antislavery movements
Bound volume includes: 1. A Review of the report of a select committee of the house of Commons, on the state of the West India colonies -- 2. Three months in Jamaica, in 1832 -- 3. The West India question -- 4. The guilt of forbearing to deliver our British colonial slaves -- 5. A review of some of the arguments which are commonly advanced against parliamentary interference ... -- 6. The slave colonies of Great Britain -- 7. Negro slavery -- 8. [removed] -- 9. A short review of the slave trade...
Topic: Slavery
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895, compiler; Sweetser, Seth, 1807-1878, former owner; American Anti-Slavery Society
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Compiled by Theodore D. Weld
Topics: Slavery, Slaves
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Falconbridge, Alexander, d. 1792
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5-55, [1] p. ; 23 cm
Topic: Slave trade
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Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
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Last page an advertisement
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Topics: Slave trade, Slavery
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Woolsey, T. D., Prof., former owner; Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884, former owner
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Editor: 1859- , T. Hamilton
Topic: African Americans
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Cérisier, L., fils; Pétion, Alexandre, 1770-1818
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Cover title
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by United States. Supreme Court; Scott, Dred, 1809-1858; Sanford, John F. A., 1806 or 7-1857; Taney, Roger Brooke, 1777-1864; Van Evrie, John H., 1814-1896; Cartwright, Samuel A. (Samuel Adolphus), 1793-1863
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Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Topics: Scott, Dred, 1809-1858, United States. Supreme Court, Citizenship, Slavery, African Americans,...
Bolling, Philip A. Speeches. Richmond, 1832
Topic: Slavery
1st ed. Howes USiana T304
Topic: Slavery
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1892; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879. recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1892, Curtis, Sidney Peirce,...
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
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Holograph
Topics: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, Boston Female Anti-slavery Society, Antislavery movements, Women...
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
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Publ. dates discrepencies: vol. 1-2, 1855; vol. 3-4, 1853; vol. 5, 1854; vol. 1856
Topic: Generals
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Ramsay, James, 1733-1789; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, former owner; Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833, former owner; Welsh, James Jacob, former owner; Hunt, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Peter), b. 1808, former owner
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"Errata": p. [xxi]
Topic: Slavery
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Ramsay, James, 1733-1789; Beach, Samuel, former owner
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Relates to the West Indies
Topics: Slavery, Intelligence levels
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Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Buxton, Thomas Fowell, Sir, 1786-1845; Buxton, Thomas Fowell, Sir, 1786-1845. African slave trade; Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884, former owner; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, former owner; Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilization of Africa
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Text preceded by prospectus
Topic: Slave trade
Manuscript day book containing various business-related transactions of The liberator newspaper, mostly pertaining to its subscribers. Under each day of each month are listed the subscribers' names, addresses (or towns of residence), and the nature of each cash transaction, including changes of address, payments, etc
Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831), Slavery, Newspaper publishing
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions
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v. ; 23 cm
Topics: Slavery, Antislavery movements
Source: bplscas
Not listed in Lib. Company. Afro-Americana
Topics: Slavery, African Americans, Slaves
Manuscript day book containing various business-related transactions of The liberator newspaper, mostly pertaining to its subscribers. Under each day of each month are listed the subscribers' names, addresses (or towns of residence), and the nature of each cash transaction, including changes of address, payments, etc
Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831), Slavery, Newspaper publishing
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784; Ady, John, d. 1812; Drinker, John, 1733-1800; London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends). Meeting for Sufferings
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Attributed to Benezet by Evans, et al
Topic: Slave trade
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Estlin, Mary Anne, 1820-1902; Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, Estlin, Mary Anne, 1820-1902, Chamerovzow, Louis Alexis, Dawson,...
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Preface by Wilson Armistead
Topic: Slavery
Source: bplscas
Caption title
Topics: Aaron, Slaves, Slavery
Attributed to Richard Nisbet, printed by John Sparhawk. Cf. Evans
Topics: Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813, Slavery
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Barnes, Albert, 1798-1870; Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884, former owner
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Boston
Topics: Slavery, Slavery and the church
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Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Farnsworth, Amos, 1788-1861; Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890, recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890, Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889, Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892,...
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions; Denison, Charles Wheeler, 1809-1881, former owner
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Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) ex libris (inscription): C.W. Denison
Topics: Antislavery movements, Slavery
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
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Publ. dates discrepencies: vol. 1-2, 1855; vol. 3-4, 1853; vol. 5, 1854; vol. 1856
Topic: Generals
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890; Weston, Mary, 1786-1860, recipient
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Holograph, signed with initials "AWW."
Topics: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890, Weston, Mary, 1786-1860, Ammidon, Angelina, Chapman, Maria Weston,...
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by M. W. C. (Mary W. Clunie); Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884, former owner; Religious Book Society (London, England), publisher; Metchim & Son, printer
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Preface signed at end: M.W.C., Clapham Common, October 22nd, 1867
Topics: Slavery in the Bible, Slavery and the church, Antislavery movements
Source: bplscas
Desmond, Ray. Dictionary of British and Irish botantists and horticulturalists
Topics: Botany, Pastures, Grazing, Forage plants, Weeds, Grasses
Signatures: a-cd, A-TU²
Topics: Slave trade, Abolitionists
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Gilbert, Olive; Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, author of introduction, etc; Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895. American slavery as it is. Selections; J.B. Yerrinton and Son, printer
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Recorded and edited by Olive Gilbert
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Topics: Truth, Sojourner, d. 1883, Slaves, Slavery, Abolitionists, African American abolitionists, African...
Checklist Amer. imprints
Topic: Slavery
Dedication signed: Thomas Clarkson
Topics: Slavery, Slave trade
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890; Weston, Mary, 1786-1860, recipient
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Holograph, signed with initials
Topics: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890, Weston, Mary, 1786-1860, Pierpont, John, 1785-1866, Minot, Thomas,...
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897. recipient
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Handwritten transcription of letter; not William Lloyd Garrison's handwriting
Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897, Grimké, Sarah Moore,...
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916, recipient
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Holograph, signed "Your loving Father."
Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916, Venturi, Emilie Ashurst,...
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872; May, Samuel, 1810-1899, recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: May, Samuel, 1810-1899, Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890; Weston, Mary, 1786-1860. recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890, Weston, Mary, 1786-1860, Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus),...
Source: bplscas
Copyright 1815 by Solomon W. Conrad
Topics: Lay, Benjamin, 1677-1759, Sandiford, Ralph, 1693-1733, Abolitionists, Quaker abolitionists, Quakers
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
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Publ. dates discrepencies: vol. 1-2, 1855; vol. 3-4, 1853; vol. 5, 1854; vol. 1856
Topic: Generals
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Loring, Louisa Gilman, d. 1868, recipient
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Handwritten copy of letter; not William Lloyd Garrison's handwriting
Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Loring, Louisa Gilman, d. 1868, Antislavery movements,...
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Benson, George William, 1808-1879, recipient
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Holograph, signed with initials
Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Benson, George William, 1808-1879, Tappan, Arthur, 1786-1865,...
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890; Weston, Deborah, b.1814 recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890, Weston, Deborah b. 1814, Sullivan, Catherine M, Parker, Mary S,...
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890; Weston, Deborah, b.1814 recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890, Weston, Deborah b. 1814, Antislavery movements, Women abolitionists
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872; Weston, Emma Forbes, b. 1825, recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Weston, Emma Forbes, b. 1825, Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872, Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898, Weston,...
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876, recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876, Channing, William Ellery,...
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884; Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870, recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884, Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870, Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell),...
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Benson, Henry Egbert, 1814-1837, recipient
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Holograph, signed with initials
Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Benson, Henry Egbert, 1814-1837, Thompson, George, 1804-1878,...
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Antislavery movements, Women...
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889; Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889, Cheever, George Barrell, 1807-1890,...
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Sunderland, La Roy, 1802-1885, recipient
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Clipping (information artifact)
Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Sunderland, La Roy, 1802-1885, Hunt, William Morris, 1824-1879,...
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872; Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890, recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890, Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872, Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879,...
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871; Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871, Ballou, Adin,...
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Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Addie; Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890, recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890, Addie, Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873, Stowe,...
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Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop), 1785-1855; May, Samuel, 1810-1899, recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: May, Samuel, 1810-1899, Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop), 1785-1855, Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop),...
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Loring, Nathaniel; Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847, recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Humphrey, Heman, 1779-1861; Coffin, Joshua, 1792-1864, former owner; Beman, Nathan S. S. (Nathan Sidney Smith), 1785-1871
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Delivered at Amherst College July 4, 1828; cf. Shoemaker 33616
Topics: Temperance, Slave trade
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by May, Samuel, 1810-1899
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Holograph
Topics: Antislavery movements, Abolitionists
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Griffiths, Julia; Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society
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A collection of signed articles, poems, etc., by men and women prominent in the anti-slavery movement. Most of the signatures are in facsimile
Topic: Antislavery movements
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885; Weston, Deborah, b.1814 recipient
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Holograph
Topics: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, Weston, Deborah, b. 1814, Torrey, Charles T. (Charles Turner),...
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Benson, Henry Egbert, 1814-1837, recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Benson, Henry Egbert, 1814-1837, Coffin, Joshua, 1792-1864,...
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885; Laugel, Elizabeth Bates Chapman, b. 1831, recipient
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Holograph
Topics: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, Laugel, Elizabeth Bates Chapman, b. 1831, Jay, John, 1817-1894,...
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Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879; Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876, recipient
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Holograph, signed with initials
Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876, Dow, Joseph, 1819-1880,...
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885; Estlin, Mary Anne, 1820-1902, recipient
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Holograph, signed
Topics: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885, Estlin, Mary Anne, 1820-1902, Antislavery movements, Women...
Source: bplscas
A list of subscribers arranged by place, including the beginning and ending dates of their subscriptions
Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831), Slavery, Newspaper publishing
Source: bplscas
Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection
by Société d'hommes de couleur
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Vols. for sept. 1836- issued for: Société d'hommes de couleur
Topic: France -- Colonies -- Periodicals